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Re:Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment by goatlover on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:02AM (#18237064)
The new Reddit design is often much slower loading the first time than the old one. It's performant after that, but that first load is annoying.
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Re:Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment by sgt on Thursday October 18, 2018 @01:38AM (#18246152)
I just had to come back to this comment after testing in a couple of browsers, focusing on Safari and Chrome. Going to https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/9oz5sa/wha... and scrolling is OK in Safari but actually pretty laggy compared to old mode. It's definitely not how a modern web site should perform. Testing with Chrome, it was fast in the beginning, but if you scroll up and down for about 15-20 seconds, CPU load goes up and my laptops fan start spinning.

So no, I do not believe reddit's new design is "performant" at all.

One has to wonder - if Reddit's engineers can't get React right (I'm sure they hire smart people), is it really not a problem with React in the end?

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